Reborn in the Great Northern Wilderness in 1982, I farmed and hunted to support my whole family.

cruel?!

Li Mu curled his lip in exasperation. "Beautiful lady, have you ever heard the saying?"

"What did you say?" the elegant woman asked, puzzled.

"Bunny is so cute, how could you eat it?" Li Mu probably spoke in a high-pitched voice, his face showing a strange look of being on the verge of tears, full of heartache and reproach.

For a moment, the mother and daughter opposite him couldn't help but shiver.

All their sympathy vanished at that moment, along with that strange feeling that made them feel somewhat nauseous.

Seeing the disdain in the eyes of the mother and daughter opposite him, Li Mu quickly changed the subject.

"So, regardless of whether it's cruel or not, making the most of resources is the right thing to do."

“This lady is missing a snow-white fox fur scarf, and I happen to have one here. If you don’t buy it today, you might not be able to buy it again in the future.”

After Li Mu finished speaking, he stuffed the fox pelt back into the snakeskin bag.

"Then give me a discount, I'll buy it if you give me a discount." The fashionable woman followed Li Mu's words and said, but her eyes never left the snakeskin bag.

It's indeed hard to find fox fur scarves on the market; there are quite a few rabbit fur ones, but most of them are gray or yellow.

White ones are also rare.

"I can't lower the price. This is the only price if you want to buy it. If you don't want to buy it, I'm leaving." Li Mu looked like he didn't want to waste any more words, held up one finger and waved it, then turned around as if to leave.

The fashionable woman immediately gritted her teeth and said, "Fine, one hundred it is. I'll take it."

But even though she had spoken, the elegant beauty didn't want to let Li Mu off too easily, so she tugged at her mother's sleeve again.

"Mom, 100 yuan is enough for me to buy a cashmere coat."

Upon hearing her say that, Li Mu quickly responded.

"Cashmere coats are nice, but they're not as pretty or eye-catching as snow-white fox fur."

"Besides, the New Year is just around the corner. Wearing this snow-white fox fur scarf of mine, you'll be the most dazzling person in Mohe."

Li Mu showered Li Mu with flattering words as if they were free.

The fashionable woman opposite him smiled so hard her eyes narrowed into slits. Without saying a word, she took out her wallet from her pocket, pulled out a hundred yuan, and handed it to Li Mu.

Li Mu took the money, smiled, and tucked it into his pocket. "Big sister, do you want to keep the fox pelt, or should I take it to you somewhere?"

"Take it to the store first, I have some things to do right now," the fashionable woman replied with a smile.

He turned to the side and pointed to the place behind him where a sign with the gilded characters "Lakeside Hotel" hung on the side.

He's run all the way to the entrance of the Lakeside Hotel, so it's no wonder he ran into this mother and daughter here.

but……

Li Mu's eyes flickered slightly, and he quickly looked away from the sign for the Lakeside Hotel, then turned to the mother and daughter with a troubled expression.

"Big sister, that place is not a place for a nobody like me to go in."

Upon hearing his words and then noticing Li Mu's shabby attire, the fashionable woman burst out laughing.

She had forgotten about it.

If we actually let him come to our door, he'll probably be kicked out as a beggar.

"Go in through the back door over there, go straight to the kitchen and find the head chef, Jin Dachuan, and give him the food."

The fashionable woman then pointed to the entrance of an alley.

Li Mu was just waiting for her to say that!

After hurriedly replying "Okay," he picked up his things and headed towards the back door.

Watching Li Mu jog away, the fashionable woman chuckled and remarked, "That rascal is quite interesting."

"He's all talk and no action; I can tell he's just trying to bluff." The elegant woman said with a look of disdain.

She was already somewhat resentful about being tricked last time, and now that this kid had tricked her mother again, she was even more resentful towards Li Mu.

"You! Your father and I have spoiled you rotten." The fashionable woman smiled and pointed at her daughter's head. "If you had even half as sweet-talking as him, your father could confidently hand over his position to you in the future."

Unfortunately, the elegant beauty not only ignored her mother's words, but also angrily said with a look of disapproval, "Hmph, I don't want to be like him."

There is clearly a significant generation gap between the mother and daughter.

Li Mu, who had already arrived at the kitchen door, was completely unaware of the argument that had broken out between the mother and daughter because of him.

He had just raised his hand to knock on the kitchen door with the snakeskin bag in his hand when the door opened from the inside.

As luck would have it, the person who came out was none other than Jin Dachuan, the head chef of the Lakeside Restaurant, who had bought his rabbit and fish with the elegant woman at the stall that day.

Li Mu quickly stepped forward to greet him, "Chef Jin, we meet again."

Jin Dachuan also had a deep impression of Li Mu, and hurriedly said with a smile, "Young man, you're here to sell fish again? Well, you're in trouble now, we have enough fish for today."

"No, I didn't come here to sell fish. I'm here to deliver something to your manager's wife," Li Mu replied with a smile, casually pulling out a fox pelt from his snakeskin bag.

Jin Dachuan's eyes lit up as soon as he saw the item. "Fox meat? Young man, do you sell fox meat?"

He really is a cook; every other sentence he utters revolves around cooking.

"Too late, the meat has already been bought up," Li Mu replied with a smile.

Hearing this, Jin Dachuan's face was full of regret. "What a pity. If I had known you could get your hands on this, I would have definitely placed an order with you first."

"It's not too late now. I specialize in mountain products. Whether it's something that runs in the mountains or swims in the water, whatever you need, we have it here."

Li Mu spoke in a very magnanimous manner.

Regardless of whether he has it or not now, once he makes this boast, he has a way to make something out of nothing become something if the other party wants it.

Sure enough, Jin Dachuan's eyes lit up again upon hearing this.

Do you have any black fungus, monkey head mushrooms, hazel mushrooms, or birch polypore?

"Yes, of course I have," Li Mu replied with a smile.

He hadn't actually thought of it that way before; he assumed Jin Dachuan wanted meat like pheasants, rabbits, or wild pheasants.

To my surprise, that's what he said.

There are many such things in the mountains, but if you want to do more, you need more manpower.

Therefore, he hadn't thought about this when he wanted to make money before.

Moreover, these things are now being raised on a certain scale, so they are not easy to sell at stalls.

Jin Dachuan's reminder brought him back to his senses.

Wild mountain delicacies have always had a good market, and their sales have been increasing year by year.

The birch polypore, in particular, is so precious that it's comparable to wild ginseng and lingzhi.

Thinking this, Li Mu then added, "Everything else is easy to find, it's just that birch polypore is hard to come by."

Jin Dachuan naturally knew that it would be difficult to find, which is why he casually mentioned it.

However, since this kid has spoken, there is hope of finding him.

"It doesn't matter how much, as long as you can find me birch polypore, I'll accept all the wild delicacies you bring from the mountains in the future."

Take them all!

Li Mu's eyes flickered slightly, and he asked in a low voice, somewhat incredulously, "Can you make that decision? The woman who was with you that day didn't seem like someone easy to talk to."